Push for Community Schools Focused on ‘Equity’ Raises Red Flags, Say Critics

Push for Community Schools Focused on ‘Equity’ Raises Red Flags, Say Critics
Students pick up their school books at Hollywood High School in Hollywood, Calif., on Aug. 13, 2020. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
Brad Jones
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A global push to provide students with much more than just education under the banner of “community schools” has left many parents wondering what the program is all about, who’s behind it, and why its agenda is centered around the concept of “equity.”

A full-service community school strives to “meet the social, emotional, physical and mental health, and academic needs of students,” according to the U.S. Department of Education.